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Toyboys keep me on my toes flexing my fingers on the keyboard. Jefferson Davis is no exception even though he lives in South Carolina.He is only playing forward the tag from K8 the Gr8 for a meme last week

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vList two things that irritate you for a reason (and list the reason!), and two things that irritate you for no apparent reason whatsoever!!

1) Wimps – People who whinge to anyone and everyone about how hard their life is, yet do nothing to improve it.

Let me tell them NOWHERE are we promised an easy life.We all have knocks and put downs in some shape or form.For some it is money problems, not having enough to put food on their table and heat in their bones. Others it is being in a job they hate or worse still having no job to go to day after day. Yet more suffer pain at the hand of abusers, or discomfort day and daily that prevents them sitting in a chair or walking across a room without wincing due to ill-health. Watching once again ‘The last Lecture’ by Randy Pausch, who died on 25th July this year, I come away with two sentences etched on my brain.

“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand!”

And

“The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want something!”

2) Waste – People buying things that they think they need because it is fashionable and the latest ‘must have’ or due to peer pressure.

We all do it in some shape or form.Falling for the ‘buy one get one free’ offers in the supermarket even when there is no way we will ever use two within the sell by date.Buying shoes, when we know full well that they are pinching your little toes and you already have a pair the same colour at home.Ordering food in a restaurant and leaving half of it on the plate untouched.Drinking until you throw up – where is the fun in walking around with a head pounding like a Lambeg drum.Some of the best fun in life is to be had without ever touching a drop of drink.

Two things that bug me for no apparent reason

1) Bread & jam that falls jam side down on the carpet

2) Food wrap that gets in a tangle.

This time I leave it open to tag yourself if you wish to.

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I agree with you on the first two GM, it bugs me when people give out about their jobs etc, but don’t try to change them. Waste is something that I’ve started to get annoyed about. I suppose I was guilty of being a Celtic Tiger teenager so I was used to buying things (especially clothes) and wearing them twice before donating them to charity. I made the decision in January to stop doing that. I can count on one hand the items of clothing I’ve bought since……that’s what got me into craft as well…..my attempt to combat “throw-away-ism”.

1.Greed
2.Bad manners and a lack of respect
3.People not honouring their word
4 Parking meters at railway stations
5 Thugs
6 Drivers who tailgate even though you doing 55 mph
7 Elderly people forced to sit for 2 days on a f**king hospital trolley

Quite agree re wimps and waste. As you say, we’re not promised an easy life so there’s no point in moaning that it’s too difficult. Sorting out life’s problems is what our imagination and ingenuity is for. And I’m amazed at the amount of food diners leave on their plates. In our hotel in New York, people would help themselves to huge bowls of fruit salad or cereal for breakfast and then not eat any of it.

1. A closed mind. We should all keep an open mind on everything. How else can we learn?

2. People that are irresponsible about their guns. If I had my way, there would never be a handgun in anyone’s house, but I realize that others don’t agree. But we should all agree that they are kept safely and responsibly.

Big Irritations
1. Patronising men . . . I can’t stand being spoken to as if I was 18 years old but it happens on a daily basis
2. Politicians, they seem to forget that they are representative of the people and not in it for the power trip

Little Irritations
1. My washing machine because it doesn’t spin properly and the clothes are soggy so it has to go through two spin cycles
2 Skype deciding to have a ‘nana nap’ every 20 minutes when I’m madly talking to someone

You’d be amazed by the amount of irritable toyboys you have out there apart from Jefferson above!

There’s Darren, the other Darragh, the dashing David and Andrew as well. I think they could all do with a hug from Grannymar. Or at least a cup of tea, a biscuit and a chat 😛 . Think we could do a group hug?